Types Of Bone Tissue

Question 1

Compact bone (cortical bone)

Answer 1

• hard & heavy
• surrounds cancellous bone
• comprises of units called lamellae - sheets of collagen aligned in parallel patterns.
• supplied with oxygen and nutrients through blood supply within structures called Haversian canals or patrons

Question 2

Cancellous bone (spongy bone)

Answer 2

• less dense and softer of the two types
• ends of bones and surrounded by compact bone
• highly vascularised and photos tissue where blood cells are created